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Expenditure and Consumption Survey, PECS 2007

Palestine, 2007 - 2008
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Reference ID
PAL_PECS_2007_HD_V2.0
Producer(s)
Economic Research Forum, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Income and Expenditure Surveys ERF Harmonized Datasets
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Feb 19, 2014
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Source of income (INCS)

Data file: Palestine07-HH-V2

Overview

Valid: 1231
Valid (weighted): 1231
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 44
End: 45
Width: 2
Range: 10 - 50
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V2456

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases Weighted
10 Household business 303 314
25.5%
20 Salaries and wages 688 674
54.8%
30 Remittances from country or abroad 115 118
9.6%
40 Pensions 106 106
8.6%
50 Other 19 19
1.5%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
Main income source of the household
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
Generated by ERF
OR
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf) if available

Others

Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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This variable may not exist in most of the surveys but can be constructed from the individual files


COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Main source of income was generated using H23_1 to H23_13 indicating a ranking for the source of income from 1 to 5 for each source. The rank “1” for each source of income was used to compute the harmonized variable, and identify the main source of income for the household.
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